Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe devotion
Below is a list of describing words for devotion. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe devotion:
- true and wholehearted
- filial and respectful
- exclusive and unsurpassed
- well-known ardent
- mutual and self-sacrificing
- universal, unanimous
- least or lowliest
- abject and illiberal
- absolutely selfless
- chivalrous and respectful
- high and perfectly pure
- profound and disinterested
- chivalrous distant
- silent maternal
- scandalous carnal
- heroic official
- eternal and mournful
- daring and humble
- manly daring and humble
- admirable and traditional
- absolute round-the-clock
- frantic and suicidal
- unfailing and inexplicable
- generous and eager
- plain, selfless
- absolute, magical
- heart-wrenching filial
- exquisite and personal
- nearly autistic
- unselfish, unchanging
- superstitious and traditional
- unselfish and exclusive
- gallant and exclusive
- fanciful, quixotic
- spirited and true
- tasteless but painstaking
- sentimental and personal
- late perfect
- thoughtful and almost fearful
- religious and filial
- zeal and unbounded
- pitiful sorry
- silent and ardent
- stronger or fuller
- splendid self-effacing
- passionate mournful
- unheard-of and endless
- impulsive and self-reliant
- romantic and unselfish
- sincere and unceasing
- reverent and chivalrous
- spiritual, unphysical
- undying and slavish
- joyous and unswerving
- unalterable, life-long
- best and most selfless
- quiet and self-sacrificing
- mediaeval and primitive
- unshakable religious
- gloriously simple
- sole and undying
- cheerful, selfless
- sincere and selfless
- wholehearted and complete
- selfless and ardent
- selfless sacrificial
- rousing selfish
- thine intense
- conscientious and tireless
- heartiest religious
- ever intense
- profound and overpowering
- self-denial, tenacious
- inspiring extraordinary
- self-denial and sinless
- superstitious and intolerant
- inhuman religious
- premature and extreme
- innumerable, heroic
- passionate and serious
- young, chivalrous
- slender and rare
- intense and absolute
- humble, dumb
- loyal long
- misguided but heroic
- rare and skilful
- disinterested, selfless
- reckless and premature
- unrequited, unselfish
- limited or temporary
- undivided and unceasing
- feeblest and vaguest
- enthusiastic and extreme
- affectionate and lofty
- unchanging and self-sacrificing
- secret, unchanging and self-sacrificing
- deepest and most ardent
- angelic pure
- fervent, enlightened
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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